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No. 606,808. Patented luly 5, |898.

VAN ZANDT M. MOORE.

DJR HANGER. (Application med Feb. 23, 189s.)

(No Model.)

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VAN ZANDT MOORE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MOORE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DOOR-HANGER.

Sl?IECIIEIEGVA'IION` forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,808, dated July 5, 1898.

.Y Application iiled February 23, 1898. Serial No. 671,231. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, VAN ZANDT M. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Door-Hangersof whichthe following-is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to the class of doorhangers in which a wheel is mounted upon roller-bearings on an axle, the ends of which are loosely mounted and consequently adapted to travel in horizontal slots in the frame.

The invention may be said toA be an improvement upon the hanger shown and described in my prior patent, No.Y 585,276. In the hanger shown in that patent the endwise displacement of the axle is prevented by plates or Jtheir equivalent, which are secured to the frame beyond but close to the ends of said axle. One useful result which is secured by the present inventionis to dispense with these pla-tes, the endwise displacement of the axle being prevented by other means which are more simple and lessv expensive.

The invention may be best described as consisting, in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a hanger embodying my invention. Fig. 2 .is an end view thereof. Fig. 3 is avertical sectional view. Fig. 4 is a front view of the wheel, axle, and washer, the latter `being partly broken away. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the axle, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the antifriction-rollers.

The hanger-frame consists of two parallel plates A and B, which are held in proper relation to each other by means of the spacinglugs a",.`1na'd`e, preferably, integral with the plate A and Athe. screws C. The plate As extended downward a'considerable distance and is the part of the hanger to which the door is attached.

The plate A and the upper part of the plate B perform the functions which in the prior hangers have been performed by what are known as rider-bars. In these plates are the horizontal slots a and b,respectively. The ends of the axle D enter and are movable along said slots. The middle part of the axle is of smaller diameter than the ends which pass into the slots. A series of antifrictionrollers F are arranged about this reduced part of the axle, and a grooved wheel G is mounted upon these rollers, said wheel lying between the two plates A andB. The length of the rollers is just a trie less than the length of the reduced part of the axle, so that they may rotate freely.

It will be observed that the axle cannot move endwise unless there is a corresponding endwise movement of the rollers. This movement is prevented bymeans of washers which embrace the axle on opposite sides of the wheel', which washers nearly ll the spaces between the plates A and B and said wheel.

Having described my invention, l claim- In a door-hanger, the combination of two Aparallel plates, containing horizontal slots,`

one of said plates being adapted to be secured to a door, with an axle whose ends lie and are movable in said slots," andwhose middle part is of smaller diameter than the ends, a plurality of antifriction-rollers which encircle the reduced partof said axle, a wheel which embraces and is mounted upon said rollers, and two washers embracing the axle and lying between the said plates and the wheel, substantially as specifiedlV f rIn testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the'fpresence of two witnesses.

VAN ZANDT M. MOORE.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. BATES, PHILIP E. KNowLToN. 

